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Garamond Premier Pro had its genesis in 1988 when Adobe® senior type designer Robert Slimbach visited the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, to study their collection of Claude Garamond's metal punches and type designs. Garamond, a French punchcutter, produced a refined array of book types in the mid-1500s that combined an unprecedented degree of balance and elegance, and stand as a pinnacle of beauty and practicality in typefounding. While fine-tuning Adobe Garamond (released in 1989) as a useful design suited to modern publishing, Slimbach started planning an entirely new interpretation of Garamond's designs based on the large range of unique sizes he had seen at the Plantin-Moretus, and on the comparable italics cut by Robert Granjon, Garamond's contemporary. By modeling Garamond Premier Pro on these hand-cut type sizes, Slimbach has retained the varied optical size characteristics and freshness of the original designs, while creating a practical 21st-century type family. Garamond Premier Pro contains an extensive glyph complement, including central European, Cyrillic and Greek characters, and is offered in five weights ranging from light to bold.

Menu Names And Style Linking

In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on
the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of
the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the
bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be
accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic
and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the
following base style font names in the menu:

The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name
and then a style option following the guide below.

Menu Name

plus Style Option...

selects this font

Garamond Premr Pro

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Regular

Garamond Premr Pro

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Italic

Garamond Premr Pro

Bold

Garamond Premier Pro Bold

Garamond Premr Pro

Bold, Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Bold Italic

Garamond Premr Pro Capt

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Caption

Garamond Premr Pro Capt

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Italic Caption

Garamond Premr Pro Capt

Bold

Garamond Premier Pro Bold Caption

Garamond Premr Pro Capt

Bold, Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Bold Italic Caption

Garamond Premr Pro Disp

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Display

Garamond Premr Pro Disp

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Italic Display

Garamond Premr Pro Disp

Bold

Garamond Premier Pro Bold Display

Garamond Premr Pro Disp

Bold, Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Bold Italic Display

Garamond Premr Pro Lt Disp

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Light Display

Garamond Premr Pro Lt Disp

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Light Italic Display

Garamond Premr Pro Med

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Medium

Garamond Premr Pro Med

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Medium Italic

Garamond Premr Pro Med Capt

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Medium Caption

Garamond Premr Pro Med Capt

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Medium Italic Caption

Garamond Premr Pro Med Disp

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Medium Display

Garamond Premr Pro Med Disp

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Medium Italic Display

Garamond Premr Pro Med Subh

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Medium Subhead

Garamond Premr Pro Med Subh

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Medium Italic Subhead

Garamond Premr Pro Smbd

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Semibold

Garamond Premr Pro Smbd

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Semibold Italic

Garamond Premr Pro Smbd Capt

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Semibold Caption

Garamond Premr Pro Smbd Capt

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Semibold Italic Caption

Garamond Premr Pro Smbd Disp

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Semibold Display

Garamond Premr Pro Smbd Disp

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Semibold Italic Display

Garamond Premr Pro Smbd Subh

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Semibold Subhead

Garamond Premr Pro Smbd Subh

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Semibold Italic Subhead

Garamond Premr Pro Subh

[none]

Garamond Premier Pro Subhead

Garamond Premr Pro Subh

Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Italic Subhead

Garamond Premr Pro Subh

Bold

Garamond Premier Pro Bold Subhead

Garamond Premr Pro Subh

Bold, Italic

Garamond Premier Pro Bold Italic Subhead

On the Mac OS operating system, although each font appears as a separate entry on the
font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links.
Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described
above for Windows applications) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with
many applications, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe PageMaker® software,
although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications
such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or
InDesign® software.

One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked
variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will
either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of
the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print
results.

Optical Sizes

Typefaces with optical size variants have had their designs subtly
adjusted for use at specific point size ranges.

This capability reintroduces one of the features of hand-cut metal type,
which uses a separate font for each point size and is often optically
adjusted. This is an advantage over the current common practice of
scaling a single digital type design to different point sizes, which may
reduce legibility at smaller sizes or sacrifice subtlety at larger
sizes. The objective of optical sizing is to maintain the integrity and
legibility of the underlying typeface design throughout a range of point
sizes. The adjustments typically made to the design to optimize it for
different sizes are: for larger point sizes, the space between
characters (letter fit) tightens, the space within characters
(counterforms) closes up (i.e., the letters are slightly more
condensed), the serifs become finer and the stroke contrast becomes
greater, the overall weight becomes lighter, and the x-height gradually
diminishes; for smaller point sizes, opposite adjustments are made.
Smaller optical sizes are also useful when output resolution is very
limited, such as for on-screen display. One might choose to use a
smaller optical size design for creating text on buttons for a Web page,
for example. These adjustments can improve the legibility of
intermediate point sizes further if there is a greater change in design
at smaller sizes than at larger sizes. For example, the difference in
design between Caption and Regular optical sizes, which usually have a
difference in intended usage size of only 4-8 points, is often almost as
much as the difference between the regular and display sizes, which usually
have a difference of 10-60 points.

Although any of the fonts may be used at any size, the intended point
sizes for the designs of this family are:

Updated legal notices (trademark and copyright) for accuracy. Amended, changed and deleted as necessary. Ensured 'Notice' field in CFF fontinfo dictionary is the union of copyright and trademark notices in OTF 'name' table.

Added uni2010 (hyphen2).

Added 'size' feature containing a design size value.

Add default language system.

OpenType language system coverage for script 'dflt' and language 'DFLT' was added.

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